Oh no, it almost isn’t, OH YES IT ALMOST IS – time for the St.George’s Community Panto, at St.George’s Church, Crayford Road, N7.

This year we will be performing RED RIDING HOOD (with a bit of the 3 little pigs thrown in!) on Wed 11th Dec ,Thurs 12th Dec, Fri 13th Dec and Saturday, Dec 14th. There will be a matinee and evening performance on Saturday.

Lots of familiar faces from the street in it, adults and children alike, so come along and support your local community and have a laugh at the same time.
More details about where to get tickets in a couple of weeks time.
(Adults £6, children £3) – don’t forget to put the date in your diary.

Julie received an email from Tessa Wire describing an assault in Fairmead Road:

Yesterday morning (7th Nov) at 9.26am my neighbour on Fairmead Road answered his door to a white man dressed in a red jacket like a postman, who said he had a parcel for him. He was punched in the face and strangled but was saved when his partner came down the stairs and kicked the attacker, who then ran off. The attacker had an accomplice who was wearing a hi-vis jacket and what looks like a backpack, who was on lookout. They both ran away together down Highwood Road.

Did you see anyone hanging about before the attack (they came from Highwood Road direction, along Fairmead Road going towards Holloway Road) or running away afterwards, back the way they came. They could have gone along Mercers Road but we don’t know which direction, they may have been on foot or could have got into a car or be on bikes.

It seems they targeted the house (they went straight to it), possibly because the door is off to the side and tucked away a bit. They may also have tried the day before (6th Nov) at around 4.30pm, the partner didn’t answer a very insistent doorbell (as he does shift work and was taking a nap).

My neighbour is fine but battered and bruised and very shaken up. They have lived here for 11 years.

I have attached photos from our CCTV, unfortunately you can’t see their faces but you get the idea. The attackers dropped a cap and a watch in the affray so the Police have lots of forensic evidence, including finger prints.

Scenes from cctv capture

If you have any information, please let me know or call the police:
The best way to pass on information to the police is to call 101
The policeman dealing with it is Tim LIVERMORE PC 472NI
The crime reference number is 2724666/13

Hopefully they won’t be coming round this area again, but it is a good reminder to take extra precautions when answering the door – check ID through a peephole, use a safety chain, ask who the parcel is for before you open the door etc. My kids always open the door to strangers, however many times I tell them not to – but we’re going to be a lot stricter about it now.

Hope you can help. Please pass this on to anyone else local who you think might be able to help, it would be good if we could catch these violent criminals.
Thanks.

You are warmly invited to view a proposed redevelopment scheme for 443-449 Holloway Road. The proposals involve the refurbishment of the National Youth Theatre (NYT) Rehearsal Rooms, restoring the historic frontage, and redeveloping the industrial site behind with new homes, cafes and public open space and pedestrian links through to Tufnell Park Road.

This represents the final phase of redevelopments around the site which have already seen the refurbishment of the terrace at 429-431 Holloway Road for Family Mosaic and the approval of a mixed housing development on the former council office site on Tufnell Park Road.

We will be holding a public exhibition of the proposals on Wednesday 17 July on site at 449 Holloway Road (through the arch) from 1pm to 8pm. We very much hope you and your colleagues may have time to pop in, meet the team, visit the site and see the plans in context. Continue reading →

It seems that the warm weather is finally coming this week! A good time then, to enjoy the culmination of the Holloway Arts Festival. The Whittington Park Community Association will be hosting THE BIG DAY OUT in Whittington Park, on Saturday 8 June 12pm to 5pm.

On offer will be live music from Kainee of the Lovebuzz project, a “dad’s band” from Yerbury school as well as a dog show organised by the local Hornsey Vets, a penalty shoot out from Arsenal Football, free workshops in yoga and pilates, stalls, and much more.

The event is FREE and open ALL! A great way to kick off the summer in style and fun.

The pitch renovation works at Tufnell Park Playing Fields will be starting on Monday 20 May.

The football pitches will be closed off until January 2014

We had intended to re-open the pitches in September, however have now agreed to keep them closed for the rest of 2013 in order to give the grass the best chance to establish and provide a sustainably maintainable playing surface in the longer term. Teams have been informed and advised that there is some spare capacity for bookings at Market Road in the meantime. There is a possibility that we will also need to close the pitch for one more week next spring in order to install sand grooves if weather prevents us from doing this during the autumn.

Some of the potholes have deepened since the work was originally planned and we have therefore decided to import an extra 240 tonnes of topsoil to provide a much smoother playing surface. We still won’t have a fully even, graded, professional standard surface, but it will be a vast improvement on the current condition of the pitch.

Neither the buildings or the main gate on Campdale Road will be accessible to the public whilst the works are in the most active phase. The Park Keeper will therefore not be able to take last minute tennis bookings and the public will not be able to access the toilets. However, tennis courts will still be bookable online and park users will be directed to the toilets at Foxham Gardens and Whittington Park. The playground will remain available during park opening hours. We can review this at the end of June when the majority of the works have been carried out. The attached pdf shows the current fencing plan.

These works will repair damage and improve drainage. The results will be a smoother playing surface that can be sustainably maintained and more flexibility in bookings.The main park entrance will not always be open. Please use the Foxham Road and Huddlestone Road gates. The playground will stay open. The Park Keeper cannot take tennis bookings. Tennis can be booked online through:

This friendly vibrant market offers a fantastic variety of food and craft stalls.
All products available to purchase at the market are of very high quality, be it home grown, organic, fair trade or homemade.

We allow some traders to import certain goods, this enables us to offer you the customer a wide variety of goods and cater for everyone’s needs.

We believe it is truly important that a market represents its community and that is why we encourage our customers to put forward any ideas they have for the market and where possible we implement them.

Brecknock Market is not classed as a farmers market; we want to be more than just a farmers market providing a more unique and exciting shopping experience. We hope to encourage a relationship between urban and country lifestyle and would like to give anyone who has a real talent the chance to showcase their skills.

Brecknock Market is something of an innovation; it offers traders, customers, local residents and parents from the school a chance to get involved and create something special

Holloway Arts Festival 2013 brings you a holiday within Holloway from 1 – 8 June. Escape to Holloway and experience the atmosphere of the British seaside through a riot of eclectic music, spoken word, film, comic performance, crafts, theatre and outdoor events.